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Contemporary Issues in Health Services Management
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BUHEA6901 - Contemporary Issues in Health Services Management
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<p>Through interactive activities students explore contemporary professional, ethical, social justice, political and consumer considerations in the healthcare setting. The topics build upon each other as well as consider the interface of policy, practice and evidence in the delivery of quality management and care.</p>
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<p>•Professionalism: This topic examines the skills, characteristics and qualities required by a health professional and their professional conduct toward their profession, workplace, colleagues and community. It includes the role of health law, government regulation and professional bodies in ensuring a high quality care.</p>
<p>•Duty of care in Professionalism: This topic follows on from Professionalism and focuses on some of the legal considerations of a professional, particularly those of duty of care and negligence.</p>
<p>•Rights and Justice in Healthcare: This topic focuses on the definition and implication of Rights and Justice in providing health services to the community. This includes human rights, patient rights, consent and social justice.</p>
<p>•Ethical Principles and Decision-Making: This topic examines some of the principles in making ethical decisions. It focuses on the meaning and definition of ethics, and ways ethical decisions are made.</p>
<p>•Delivery of Healthcare; meeting client and community needs: This topic focusses on the definitions and concept of health and illness and approaches to healthcare delivery. There will be in-depth exploration of how public health models attempt to address individual and community need particularly with chronic illness.</p>
<p>•Quality and Safety In Healthcare: This topic examines the regulation and standards that drive the implementation of safety and quality systems that support the quality of health care.</p>
<p>•Aboriginal Health: This topic will focus on the specific health and wellbeing issues relating to aboriginal populations in Australia and/or other countries</p>
<p>•Contemporary Health and Policy Issues: This topic encourages students to present and discuss contemporary health and/or policy issues that they have identified in their work place, professional context or country. Through discussion and exchange of ideas, students will develop a better understanding of these issues and their role as in health services management.</p>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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<p>Through interactive activities students explore contemporary professional, ethical, social justice, political and consumer considerations in the healthcare setting. The topics build upon each other as well as consider the interface of policy, practice and evidence in the delivery of quality management and care.</p>
Unit content
<p>•Professionalism: This topic examines the skills, characteristics and qualities required by a health professional and their professional conduct toward their profession, workplace, colleagues and community. It includes the role of health law, government regulation and professional bodies in ensuring a high quality care.</p> <p>•Duty of care in Professionalism: This topic follows on from Professionalism and focuses on some of the legal considerations of a professional, particularly those of duty of care and negligence.</p> <p>•Rights and Justice in Healthcare: This topic focuses on the definition and implication of Rights and Justice in providing health services to the community. This includes human rights, patient rights, consent and social justice.</p> <p>•Ethical Principles and Decision-Making: This topic examines some of the principles in making ethical decisions. It focuses on the meaning and definition of ethics, and ways ethical decisions are made.</p> <p>•Delivery of Healthcare; meeting client and community needs: This topic focusses on the definitions and concept of health and illness and approaches to healthcare delivery. There will be in-depth exploration of how public health models attempt to address individual and community need particularly with chronic illness.</p> <p>•Quality and Safety In Healthcare: This topic examines the regulation and standards that drive the implementation of safety and quality systems that support the quality of health care.</p> <p>•Aboriginal Health: This topic will focus on the specific health and wellbeing issues relating to aboriginal populations in Australia and/or other countries</p> <p>•Contemporary Health and Policy Issues: This topic encourages students to present and discuss contemporary health and/or policy issues that they have identified in their work place, professional context or country. Through discussion and exchange of ideas, students will develop a better understanding of these issues and their role as in health services management.</p>
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Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Nursing
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
060301 - General Nursing
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/buhea6901">View unit fees</a>
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<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Identify and describe critical contemporary health issues for health services management in Australia, and other countries.</p>
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<p>Identify relevant scientific research and government policy to determine their relationship to the application to quality health services management.</p>
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<p>Review resources and strategies to support health services management performance and assess the appropriateness of the tools and techniques for a range of health service contexts.</p>
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<p>Identify, and describe the implications for health services management and the students professional role.</p>
S1
<p>Relate theoretical knowledge of research and policy to practice for a range of organisational and environmental health contexts.</p>
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<p>Recognise the limitations of theoretical and practical concepts in health services management and explain the implications of those limitations</p>
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<p>Develop team skills to research, analyse and present solutions to complex health care issues.</p>
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<p>Interpret specific skills in health services management and then focus on the practical application of this knowledge in learning activities and individual and team assignments.</p>
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<p>Undertake critical and systematic evaluations of relevant theories, concepts andpracticesand communicate the findings with clarity to specialist and non-specialist audiences.</p>
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<p>Students are required to identify a contemporaneous issue from their health context and critically analyse and discuss the management/leadership implications and suggest strategies to effect change.</p>
<p>Essay</p>
<p>40-60%</p>
K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2
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<p>Students are required to identify and analyse a critical workplace issue as it relates to professional, legal and ethical healthcare management & leadership, and identify plan to better manage the issue in the future.</p>
<p>Written report and presentation</p>
<p>40-60%</p>
K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2
Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Nursing
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
060301 - General Nursing
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/buhea6901">View unit fees</a>
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